The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

One of the trademarks of a champion is that he can outlast you.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect

I was certain of the uncertainty thatlied ahead which made you A risk, A mystery, And the most annihilating thing I have ever known.

We prayed the moon would unstopper long enough to suck us through to the other side so we could see how dull the stars were at their backsides.

There is something about the fifteen-year-old mind -- a kind of skin or veil or walling off from feelings not your own.

Strangers are what friends are made of.

Finding the physical aspect is important to me because that is often how we read people in everyday life.

I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.

I think I reach people because I'm with them, not apart from them.

Every Monday morning I try to remember to say "Thank you, Lord. I'm not at the Senior Staff Meeting."

... true faith never comes without anguish.

You know you knit too much when ... You take knitting to a wedding, in case there's a little time before the bride comes down the aisle. Double points if you are the bride.